I like chopsticks when I'm eating out with friends and want to look like a superstar, but when it comes to takeout in my own home I just get the food into my mouth as quickly and efficiently as possible. This has led to a surplus of takeout chopsticks that, after nearly four years, have become unruly in my utensil drawer. I asked the internet what to do about it, and found that there were actually some pretty clever uses. Here are the best.

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Use Chopsticks to Clean Your Gadgets
Modern technology is notorious for its hard-to-reach places, making cleaning pretty annoying. One solution is taking a chopstick, tying a napkin (or some kind of cloth) to he end of it and using it as a cleaner. It's a simple solution and you can do it with stuff you've already got lying around.

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Pit Cherries
If you don't have the proper tools for pitting cherries, a pair of chopsticks will do the trick. Just push the chopsticks through the top where the stem used to be and the pit will come out the bottom like a little cherry turd. It's super simple.

Use them to replace a toilet plunger when there was too much "stuff" in the toilet and the flush pressure was inadequate to do its job. (I'm not entirely sure how this would work, but we've all been there.)

Stick one into a cup of frozen Kool-Aid to make ghetto-style popsicles.

Anamari points out that you can use them to stake small plants, especially in the case of tomato plants which can use the help growing upward.